Shaka Paul McGlotten, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts
Global Black Studies Coordinator
School of Natural and Social Sciences

Office: Social Sciences 1024
Phone: 914-251-6606
Fax: 914-251-6603
Email: shaka.mcglotten@purchase.edu

Shaka McGlotten is a scholar and artist whose work is located at the intersection of studies of race, desire, and technology. His research has focused on, among other things, online communities, public sex, and subcultures.

Education:
Ph.D., Social Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 2005
B.A., Studio Art and Africana Studies, Grinnell College, 1997

Areas of expertise
Cultural politics, criticism, and poetics; dialectics of race and gender; studies of media and technology

Research interests
Real and virtual public cultures, affect, intimacy, ethnography

Courses taught
Mass Media and Society, Computers and Culture, Media Ethnographies, Introduction to Media, Society and the Arts, New Black Ethnographies

Selected Works
“Virtual Intimacies” in Queers Online, David Phillips and Kate O’Riordan, eds. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

“A Brief and Improper History of Queerspaces and Sexpublics in Austin, Texas” in a forthcoming anthologized collection of a Radical History Review special issue on homonormativity. Duke University Press, TBD.

“Ordinary Intersections: Speculations on difference, justice, and utopia in black queer life.” Chair and panelist, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2007.

“See Related Story: The Murder of J.R. Warren.” Invited discussant, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, W.V., 2007.
 
“A Brief and Improper History of Queerspaces and Sexpublics in Austin, Texas.” Invited Seminar Paper, The Gay and Lesbian Studies Project, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. 2006.

“The Bleed: The Murder of Arthur ‘J.R.’ Warren.” Invited lecture, Gay and Lesbian Studies Project, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. 2006.

“Virtual Intimacies.” Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology at Duke University. Durham, NC. November 7, 2005.

“Desire and Activist Research.” Workshop co-presented with Arin Hill. Panel presentation, Gender Difference and Cultural Resistance. Asheville, NC. March 31-April 3, 2005.

“Descendants of Freedom: A Futuristic Queer Hip Hop Odyssey.” Coproducer, codirector, performer, designer. Austin, TX and New York, NY. April 2002-present. See http://descendantsoffreedom.info

“Watch Yer Head (helmets).” Solo exhibtion curated by Michael Ray Charles. Flood Gallery, University of Texas at Austin. February 2002.

“Queer Sci-Fi.” Group exhibition with Stelarc, Orlan, and DJ Spooky at online gallery (no longer available). Also displayed at

Digital Wind 2.0, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. April 2002.